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Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook, once proclaimed in an interview that the “age of privacy” had to come to an end. According to Zuckerberg, social norms had changed and people were no longer worried about sharing their personal information with friends, friends of friends, or even the entire Web. This view is in accordance with Facebook’s broader goal, which is, according to Zuckerberg, to make the world a more open and connected place. Many Facebook features are premised on this position. Supporters of Zuckerberg’s viewpoint believe the 21st century is an age of “information exhibitionism,” a new era of openness and transparency.Facebook has a long history of invading the personal privacy of its users. In fact, the very foundation of Facebook’s business model is to sell the personal information of its users to advertisers. In essence, Facebook is like any broadcast or cable television service that uses entertainment to attract large audiences, and then once those audiences are in place, to sell air time to advertisers in 30- to 60-second blocks. Of course, television broadcasters do not have much if any personal information on their users, and in that sense are much less of a privacy threat. Facebook, currently with almost 1.8 billion users worldwide, clearly attracts a huge audience.Although Facebook started out at Harvard and other campuses with a simple privacy policy of not giving anyone except friends access to your profile, this quickly changed as its founder Mark Zuckerberg realized the revenue-generating potential of a social networking site open to the public.

1.Do people who use Facebook have a legitimate claim to privacy when they themselves are posting information about themselves?

2. How will changing your settings on Facebook help protect your privacy?

3. How can you prevent your Timeline from being indexed by Google or other search engines?

ABC Limited is a leading entertainment, artists and performance brokerage agency in Australia. ABC Ltd founder Mr. Right realised that China is a world-class media and entertainment platform and wants to begin penetrating the firm’s popular musical, magic shows there, but ABC Ltd has little international experience. Mr. Right is unaware of the various types of investment and nontariff trade barriers that ABC might face in China.

Q1. What types of investment barrier(s) might ABC Ltd face if they decide to enter into the China market? (around 100 words)

Customer Corp. entered into a five-year lease agreement with Supplier Ltd, on 1 July 2019. The lease is for a number of spa baths. Supplier Ltd acquired the spa baths on 1 July 2019, at the fair value of $1,009,850. Customer Corp. uses the spa baths at a club. The baths are expected to have an economic life of seven years, after which time they will have no residual value. There is a bargain purchase option that Customer Corps will be able to, and is expected to, exercise at the end of the fifth year, for $100,000.

There are to be five annual payments of $250,000, due at the end of each fiscal year (i.e., on 30 June each year). Customer Corp. is responsible for the insurance and maintenance of the equipment. The equipment is to be depreciated on a straight-line basis. The interest rate implicit in the lease is 10% per year. The lease can be cancelled by Customer Corp. upon payment of a penalty of $700,000.

REQUIRED:                                       

(1)    What type of lease is this for Supplier Ltd? Provide justifications for your classification considering the criteria in AASB 16 – ‘Leases’.

(2)    Prepare the journal entries, including narrations, for Supplier Ltd from 1 July 2019 to 30 June 2020 to record the lease arrangement consistent with AASB 16 – ‘Leases’.

(3) For Customer Corp. the contract contains a lease. Prepare the journal entries, including narrations, for Customer Corp. from 1 July 2019 to 30 June 2020 to record the lease arrangement consistent with AASB 16 – ‘Leases’.

Customer Corp. entered into a five-year lease agreement with Supplier Ltd, on 1 July 2019. The lease is for a number of spa baths. Supplier Ltd acquired the spa baths on 1 July 2019, at the fair value of $1,009,850. Customer Corp. uses the spa baths at a club. The baths are expected to have an economic life of seven years, after which time they will have no residual value. There is a bargain purchase option that Customer Corps will be able to, and is expected to, exercise at the end of the fifth year, for $100,000.

There are to be five annual payments of $250,000, due at the end of each fiscal year (i.e., on 30 June each year). Customer Corp. is responsible for the insurance and maintenance of the equipment. The equipment is to be depreciated on a straight-line basis. The interest rate implicit in the lease is 10% per year. The lease can be cancelled by Customer Corp. upon payment of a penalty of $700,000.

REQUIRED:                                       

(1)    What type of lease is this for Supplier Ltd? Provide justifications for your classification considering the criteria in AASB 16 – ‘Leases’.

(2)    Prepare the journal entries, including narrations, for Supplier Ltd from 1 July 2019 to 30 June 2020 to record the lease arrangement consistent with AASB 16 – ‘Leases’.

(3) For Customer Corp. the contract contains a lease. Prepare the journal entries, including narrations, for Customer Corp. from 1 July 2019 to 30 June 2020 to record the lease arrangement consistent with AASB 16 – ‘Leases’

Conduct and critically analyze compensation policy based on information below.

You have been employed as the Chief Financial Advisor (CFA) for Safer Investment Corporation. You replace the former CFA as it was found he has not been generating the desired returns for the company and investors. You are managing an Endowment Fund and a Retirement Fund. Investors are looking to earn above average returns on their investments. These investors have no insurance coverage and have not started to do any estate planning. The age distributions for the investors are as follows:

Age                                    # of clients

28-30                                      425

31-50                                      775

51-65                                      300

65+                                          175

Your salary is a combination of basic salary + commission. Commission is based on whether the company and investors achieve the desired return. The salary structure fits your profile as you have built up a reputation as being an aggressive financial advisor who seeks to make everyone happy at all cost.

QUESTION:

Conduct and critical analysis of this compensation policy to include any ethical considerations. Develop a new policy framework for the company. What recommendation will you make?

Appropriate Transfer Prices: Opportunity Costs
Plains Peanut Butter Company recently acquired a peanut-processing company that has a normal annual capacity of 4,000,000 pounds and that sold 2,800,000 pounds last year at a price of $2.00 per pound. The purpose of the acquisition is to furnish peanuts for the peanut butter plant, which needs 1,600,000 pounds of peanuts per year. It has been purchasing peanuts from suppliers at the market price. Production costs per pound of the peanut-processing company are as follows:

Management is trying to decide what transfer price to use for sales from the newly acquired Peanut Division to the Peanut Butter Division. The manager of the Peanut Division argues that $2.00, the market price, is appropriate. The manager of the Peanut Butter Division argues that the cost price of $1.08 (or perhaps even less) should be used since fixed overhead costs should be recomputed. Any output of the Peanut Division up to 2,800,000 pounds that is not sold to the Peanut Butter Division could be sold to regular customers at $2.00 per pound.

(a) Compute the annual gross profit for the Peanut Division using a transfer price of $2.00.
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(b) Compute the annual gross profit for the Peanut Division using a transfer price of $1.08.
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(c) Which of the following is least likely to motivate the manager to take actions that will maximize corporate profits?

a.Set the transfer price at 2.00 for all transfers.

b.Set the transfer price at .86 for all transfers.

c.Set the transfer price at .86 for the first 1,200,000 lbs. transferred.

d.Set the transfer price at .86 for the first 1,200,000 lbs. transferred, and at 2.00 for the next 400,000 lbs. transferred.

e.None of the above.

Appropriate Transfer Prices: Opportunity Costs Plains Peanut Butter Company recently acquired a peanut-processing company that has a normal annual capacity of 4,000,000 pounds and that sold 2,900,000 pounds last year at a price of $2.00 per pound. The purpose of the acquisition is to furnish peanuts for the peanut butter plant, which needs 1,500,000 pounds of peanuts per year. It has been purchasing peanuts from suppliers at the market price. Production costs per pound of the peanut-processing company are as follows:

Direct materials $0.50

Direct labor 0.25

Variable overhead 0.11

Fixed overhead at normal capacity 0.18

Total $1.04

Management is trying to decide what transfer price to use for sales from the newly acquired Peanut Division to the Peanut Butter Division. The manager of the Peanut Division argues that $2.00, the market price, is appropriate. The manager of the Peanut Butter Division argues that the cost price of $1.04 (or perhaps even less) should be used since fixed overhead costs should be recomputed. Any output of the Peanut Division up to 2,900,000 pounds that is not sold to the Peanut Butter Division could be sold to regular customers at $2.00 per pound.

(a) Compute the annual gross profit for the Peanut Division using a transfer price of $2.00. $Answer 0

(b) Compute the annual gross profit for the Peanut Division using a transfer price of $1.04. $Answer 0

On January 4, 2016, Spandella Company purchased 168,000 shares of Filington Company directly from one of the founders for a price of $27 per share. Filington has 560,000 shares outstanding, including the shares acquired by Spandella Company. On July 2, 2016, Filington paid $717,000 in total dividends to its shareholders. On December 31, 2016, Filington reported a net income of $963,000 for the year. Spandella uses the equity method in accounting for its investment in Filington.

Required:

On January 1, 2016, Aspen Company acquired 80 percent of Birch Company's voting stock for $424,000. Birch reported a $425,000 book value and the fair value of the noncontrolling interest was $106,000 on that date. Then, on January 1, 2017, Birch acquired 80 percent of Cedar Company for $232,000 when Cedar had a $218,000 book value and the 20 percent noncontrolling interest was valued at $58,000. In each acquisition, the subsidiary's excess acquisition-date fair over book value was assigned to a trade name with a 30-year remaining life.

These companies report the following financial information. Investment income figures are not included.   

Assume that each of the following questions is independent:

If all companies use the equity method for internal reporting purposes, what is the December 31, 2017, balance in Aspen's Investment in Birch Company account?

What is the consolidated net income for this business combination for 2018?

What is the net income attributable to the noncontrolling interest in 2018?

Assume that Birch made intra-entity inventory transfers to Aspen that have resulted in the following intra-entity gross profits in inventory at the end of each year:

What is the accrual-based net income of Birch in 2017 and 2018, respectively?